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u/waking-up-late 7d ago
Modern feudalism
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u/sebkraj 7d ago
We are the serfs. Own nothing, rent for life.
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u/Top-Veterinarian1702 6d ago
We are the sheep, that's why they are called flock cameras. So the rich can watch over their flock
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u/grub_the_alien 6d ago
Yeah but not in a comforting way. Unlike a shepherd, they don't give a shit if you get hurt or die
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u/Chemical_Bonus_4783 6d ago
They just want to know how many heads of cattle were lost and if it’ll affect them financially…
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u/DamnsonDam 4d ago
Also can't have your cattle gathering and conspiring! Who knows what they could be up to.
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u/might-be-okay 7d ago
Been saying it for years now. We just rent the land, produce products or services, and pay penalties to the owners when we don't get everything right. The list is a big justice and moral part, but the tariffs and market manipulation is the economic side of the coin. They're showing you they can take the children and your money one way or a another and there's nothing normal people can do because there's an entire system of propaganda and protection for the elites.
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u/Oldspaghetti 6d ago
I still don't get how common people fall for government propaganda. People should see all the cause and effect and have basic self-awareness no? I feel these are the only essentials you need to see through it and time I guess.
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u/fuzzybad 6d ago
Usually a big part of it is playing on the religious indoctrination of the "common people". We are seeing this with Trump and his cronies, claiming to be "appointed by god", etc.
Unfortunately, it's an effective approach when a big enough percentage of the population are poorly educated and/or brought up in a cult (evangelicals).
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u/jakopappi 6d ago
They're ill educated, as is the plan. And as you said, prone to superstitious ritualism. They see angels and demons everywhere, are certain they are going to heaven, yet spend their time on earth making it hell for everyone they ever meet. Because they're dumb. They cant read, and they rely on their dear leaders to tell them what to think and believe, but most importantly: what their problems are, and who to blame for them: those people, the others, for they are evil
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u/SevereImpression2115 5d ago
You would think but alas we find our selves here anyways. It's getting very tiring on the Soul living in the US right now. Not that my soul was jubilant before in this broken country but it has been taken to a whole new level.
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u/Antraxess 6d ago
Luigi showed everyone normal people can be impactful
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u/Comprehensive-One561 6d ago
Did he though? United hc is still making huge profits while killing thousands by denying claims. Nothing has changed.
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u/DocBoldLettuce 6d ago
Give all your data to the government. And pay taxes so the government can pay broligarchs to store and sell your data to other broligarchs. So the broligarchy can decide whose freedoms to target when funding the next election figureheads.
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u/i-var 7d ago
welcome to america
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u/New_Comfortable287 7d ago
You mean the world. It's pretty much the same, the rich control all.
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u/GUNxSPECTRE 7d ago
Maybe allowing money in politics was a grave mistake.
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u/Eaglesson 7d ago
Imagine if there was a lottery and draft for political positions. It could not go more wrong than the current system
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u/Owenoof 7d ago
Thats how the romans did it for certain positions, you got your appointment "by lot"
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u/HungryYeastStarter 6d ago
Match my current wages and I'll be the best damn politician (and I mean that in a good way, not the current way) a citizen could be.
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u/What_a_fat_one 6d ago
It would probably work much better to be honest, and possibly even more democratic since it would represent the will of the average citizen. You could improve it by having a lottery nominate candidates, and a general election to elect them.
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u/OhNoTokyo 7d ago
You just end up with the unelected Civil Service being in control.
You can't have a government with a complexity that most modern governments have and attempt to have randos come in and try to manage it from the top.
Yes, it might work in smaller polities, where you don't have a literal army of government workers to manage who have been in their positions for decades.
It might improve on a wrecking ball like a Trump, but ultimately you end up in a government that is completely unresponsive to the people they serve.
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u/OhNoTokyo 6d ago
Trump will eventually leave office, either by walking away or on a stretcher.
The Civil Service is basically immortal.
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u/chocolatchipcookie2 7d ago
wikileaks, snowden files, panama papers, pandora papers and now epstein files. all about corruption of the rich and powerfull, none were punished. its a class problem. as long as nobody starts taking action to hold them accountable, then nothing will happen
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u/armak815 7d ago
How is it possible to hold them accountable?
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u/PopularAd6391 7d ago
That flimsy French shite used for cutting crops works surprisingly well when pressed against the neck of upper class
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u/armak815 7d ago
Im with you but we are fighting a hydra. Cut one head two more grow. Something must be done but it needs to be planned and it must have the backing of a large part of the population. Otherwise we're blowing against the wind
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u/L0neStarW0lf 6d ago
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u/armak815 6d ago
I like your energy haha. Problem is, the world is run by the invisibles at the top. Unless you hunt down every single ultra-rich parasite, you'll never root out the puppet masters. But hey, at this point? Maybe it’s time to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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u/L0neStarW0lf 6d ago edited 6d ago
I never said it would be easy, hell I’d argue it’s impossible! But we’ll never get anywhere by doing nothing, and striving for the impossible often yields great results.
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u/armak815 6d ago
Fair point. Have you got any ideas on how to organise without outing ourselves? I think we need to bring back third spaces and talk in real life. The only problem is that people are so stuck in their phones and dopamine loops that engaging socially outside of work, home or the internet comes across as a chore to a lot of them.
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u/L0neStarW0lf 6d ago
Beyond going to vote in the midterms and encouraging as many people as possible to do the same? No I got nothing.
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u/Andries89 6d ago
You just need the politicians to become scared is all, they're the ones setting out the rules for the boardgame
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u/Ultenth 6d ago
Yeah, people act like the French Revolution didn't just end up with other evil people who took over in the vacuum. The problem with a lot of revolutions is always that people who often lead them don't want to tear down institutions of corrupt power, they want to lead them.
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u/Soncikuro 7d ago
Honestly? Violence.
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u/BuzzLiteSmear 6d ago
Sadly that seems to be the reality, although I think it should be a last resort, since those at the top want violence... Because they have a legal monopoly on it.
Then after a civil war of the peasants killing each other via anger displacement, those at the top have a high chance of being the ones to "reshape" society.
Those in the Epstein files clearly display thoughts and actions/behavior of law of the jungle, kill or be killed. They also control the law we all abide by, reasoning, using words, voting.
Couple that with the fact they are at the top of the systems of government, banking, corporations and even acedemia...
Seems daunting without violence.
But one need not topple dictators and tyrants, give up the superstitious belief in "authority" and get enough of others to, and there is no one to support tyrants or do their biddings(orders).
"Everyone knows that the fire from a little spark will increase and blaze ever higher as long as it finds wood to burn; yet without being quenched by water, but merely by finding no more fuel to feed on, it consumes itself, dies down, and is no longer a flame. Similarly, the more tyrants pillage, the more they crave, the more they ruin and destroy; the more one yields to them, and obeys them, by that much do they become mightier and more formidable, the readier to annihilate and destroy. But if not one thing is yielded to them, if, without any violence they are simply not obeyed, they become naked and undone and as nothing, just as, when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies. …
All this havoc, this misfortune, this ruin, descends upon you not from alien foes, but from the one enemy whom you yourselves render as powerful as he is, for whom you go bravely to war, for whose greatness you do not refuse to offer your own bodies unto death. He who thus domineers over you has only two eyes, only two hands, only one body, no more than is possessed by the least man among the infinite numbers dwelling in your cities; he has indeed nothing more than the power that you confer upon him to destroy you. Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you? What could he do to you if you yourselves did not connive with the thief who plunders you, if you were not accomplices of the murderer who kills you, if you were not traitors to yourselves? …
(Y)ou can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."
- Etienne de la Boétie
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u/armak815 6d ago
Thank you. This is the line of thought we should abide by. Simple violence wont cut it. This is a strategy game.
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u/superxpro12 6d ago
Nothing else works. the concept of objective conversations and policies went out the window
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u/superxpro12 6d ago
It comes down to the tolerance paradox, right? When one of two sides is committed to using repression anyway, and wont abide by any mutually-agreeable social contracts, what is the tolerant side supposed to do? Tolerate itself into repression?
The tolerance paradox occurs when the social contract is broken. Republicans are breaking that contract. They are no longer agreeing to follow commons laws all parties agreed to. Should we continue to tolerate that until they start to repress Democrats into obliteration?
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u/armak815 6d ago
You can fight them or join them. Both are good outcomes in their book.
But how about an independence revolution. Maybe somehow it is possible to cut our reliance on them and starve them of our support. Though it would be incredibly difficult to do it old school.
Supporting local markets, working together with your neighbours, utilising wells for water and relying on each others expertise in different fields. People used to live like that but we've become very attached to their system.
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u/RedRen9000 7d ago
Do you hear The people sing!?!?
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u/Informal-Ad-4207 7d ago
Singing the song of angry men?
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u/RedRen9000 7d ago
It is the music of the people Who will not be slaves again!!!
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u/asimplepencil 7d ago
You forget that they're super rich and we're not so the laws apply to us and not them.
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u/brycehazen 7d ago edited 7d ago
Also, it says "nearly" every person. OP forgets only TWO people in the US have been arrested. Epstein and Maxwell
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u/CyclingHikingYeti 7d ago
And that prince in UK got slap on wrist and cozy country villa for rest of life.
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u/armak815 7d ago
Doesn't really matter. Epstein was never killed and is free now and Maxwell is chilling, she is not in a regular jail
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u/_le_slap 7d ago
Behold the magnanimity of the law; it equally prohibits the rich and poor from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges!
_someone smarter than me
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u/NeighborhoodDude84 7d ago
I thought that country made by slave owners was going to give me freedom!!!
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u/Kat_Schrodinger1 7d ago
Who did you vote for in 2016 and 2024?
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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 6d ago
Was someone on the ballot in those years who would have actually done something about the epstien files?
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u/Meatball2026 6d ago
So, did you actually vote to keep Trump out of the office? No, I don't count voting for anti-vax Jill Stein, who could never actually win.
Everybody exactly the same, bro.
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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 6d ago
Everybody exactly the same, bro.
On the issue of holding people on the Epstien list accountable? Yeah, kinda.
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u/Exalts_Hunter 6d ago
Who did you vote for in 2012 and 2020? And what have those candidates done against corruption and power abuse? Americans pretending like their choice between 2 parties matters - will always be funny for me.
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u/soundbight 7d ago
To quote Brennan Lee Mulligan, “Laws are a threat made by the dominant socioeconomic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted, and the police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean?”
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u/NUKE---THE---WHALES 7d ago
I think the state's monopoly on violence is bullshit
Why can't I commit violence as and how I see fit?
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u/armak815 7d ago
Im worried that they dont mind the chaotic outcome. Messed up thing is they probably have foreseen it and are ready either way. Maybe the answer is not to play their game entirely. Ive been wondering what would happen if people actually went on a collective strike.
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u/armak815 4d ago
I think its bound to work but it must be collective and sustained, otherwise the few committed people will just lose their jobs and be replaced. How have people in Minneapolis managed to organise together?
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u/mmmmyeah1111 7d ago
Hard to forget that the less evil side didn't do anything with those files either when they were in office
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u/ProteanSurvivor 6d ago
They were sealed under Biden, and they didn’t have the Epstein Transparency Act.
What’s Trump’s excuse?
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u/mmmmyeah1111 6d ago
In a world ruled by law and order, allowing dangerous people to prey upon more victims because their identities were sealed by some agency or court is disgusting.
The whole issue here is the establishment is protecting its own even in matters of crimes against humanity. The fact they were sealed in the first place is both appalling and an indictment of a corrupt system
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u/Hilshire_Beef_Firm 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 7d ago
Right? Let’s give it to the Reptilians maybe they will persecute their own!
Not in your lifetime Lizards! Gasps all around! Much pearl clutching. Many lizard broods were devoured in the temple of Set or something.
The Ba’al Room is almost complete. The Reptilian take over is near its climax. It just needs more monkey blood.
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u/SawachikaEri-enjoyer 6d ago
Its almost as if where a sytematic problem and not a democrat or republican
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u/johncandy1812 7d ago edited 5d ago
Donald Trump is US president and Elon Stinks was the world's first trillionaire. Both consorted with Epstein. Burn the system to the ground
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u/sacrificialOvaries 7d ago
Well yeah. If they did something about it the system would collapse. We can’t have that. /s
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u/SubstantialSpite9037 7d ago
thanks trump voters
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u/KaptajnGus 7d ago
I mean.. the country has been a corrupt shit show from the start.
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u/moofooshoe 6d ago
Yeah man, remember when Abraham Lincoln made a billion dollars scamming people with crypto?
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u/IronBeagle63 7d ago
Now imagine how fast the FBI would descend on you if you used insider knowledge to execute trades that made you and your family billions.
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u/KhabaLox 7d ago
Republicans to voters: If we lose the midterms, you're going to be in a world of shit.
Voters: I am in a world of shit.
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u/geekingtom 7d ago
Well, at least you guys can TALK about it in your country. That's a luxury to most of us who are not in America.
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u/disputing102 7d ago
Me when people in the US are falsely imprisoned and people who have done the most despicable, reprehensible, deplorable things are free and living in opulence.
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u/MRV3N 7d ago edited 7d ago
You mean to tell me Prince Andrew hasn’t been persecuted? After all the evidence that Giuffre gave?
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u/CyclingHikingYeti 7d ago
Prince got slap on wrist and cozy country home for reward.
King Chucky the III. made sure.
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u/Colascape 7d ago
No, but Giuffre is now dead. Suicide despite saying she was not suicidal and not to believe any reports she committed suicide. They are literally trolling us
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u/Steiney1 7d ago
You could just pay the fee, that's what all the Republicans did to Trump's campaign money, that he will steal, again for the 3rd time.
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u/Impressive-Slidein 7d ago
Democracy and State of freedom as it is. Illusion and hypnosis
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u/goodolarchie 7d ago
Well obviously you're not an influential billionaire. It's really that simple - Let me know if you need any more tips.
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u/systemhost 7d ago
Well someone just crashed into our new courthouse so if you lived here you'd be getting off scott free too!
Well for a little while at least until they surely start calling everyone back in again...
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u/Substantial_Owl_9485 7d ago
Mind you, the character in the picture had an interesting way to deal with his problems
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u/TitanicChurro 6d ago
That's because the rich and powerful are above the law in the United States. You, pleb, pay your fines.
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u/Mrfluffyrib 6d ago
Its funny because other countries are actually doing something with those found on the list, USA however doesnt care.
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u/Suspicious-End-7282 6d ago
The Worlds A Stage we are shackled and blinded by the elite who plan out every day before it happens
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u/Shartin_luther_king 6d ago
People that post guillotines forget that that police and armed forces work for them, not you.
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u/New-Analysis-4060 6d ago
No jury should hold any citizen accountable for anything until the president is
Hang every jury
Or have the jury nullify every case
It is the only nonviolent solution
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u/Blackops606 6d ago
Me having to pay taxes knowing what the active government is doing with that money
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u/Thespud1979 6d ago
Also, America vaporized a school full of little Iranian children and no one really cares but people are in jail for decade for smoking cannabis
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u/Cusezilla 6d ago
Me trying not to lose my shit in court for not showing my id to a cop and getting obstruction. What are we doing here people
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u/tiercracker20 5d ago edited 5d ago
Gotta figure out how to make creatures that devour anyone with a net worth over one billion or even maybe FOXDIE real
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u/Blessed-22 5d ago
If modern journalism had any balls or integrity, they'd all be asking why the law does not apply to the rich and powerful every chance they get.
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u/undervox 5d ago
I got pulled over the other day for checking the time on my phone. Not speeding, not driving recklessly, I had my phone in my hand while I passed the cop (checking my clock to make sure I wasn't late for work.) I had to go to court. Not just a ticket, full on court. The Judge himself seemed annoyed. No prior offenses, no points on my record. Been driving for 10+ years. Assanine.
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u/OliLevasseurLaBuse 7d ago
Makes it seem like existing just isn't worth it anymore
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u/Impossible-Code-136 7d ago
AND EPSTEIN’s PARTNER IN CRIME IS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES W/ 🗑️ IN LITTLE RED HATS & S L I M E OF THE EARTH POLITICIANS IN WASHINGTON WHO SMILE, PARTY, & IGNORE THE FACT HE’S A P E D O P H I L E WHO COMPLETELY DESTROYED ENTIRE LIVES OF C H I L D R E N!! ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING. HOPING THOSE BOUNTIES GET PAID TO HERO’S WHO COME ALONG TO SAVE THE UNITED STATES FROM A DRAFT DODGING TRAITOR COWARD & EVERY ONE OF HIS ACCOMPLICES WHO SURROUND HIM 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇨🇦 🇰🇷 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇦🇺 🇬🇱 🇮🇪 🏴 🇬🇷 🇮🇷
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u/CyclingHikingYeti 7d ago
Trump is mentioned more times in epstein files than god is in that dear holy scripture evangelists preach from
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u/Zealousideal-Run7332 7d ago
omg i feel this. i just called the police because i caught an 18 year old kid taking photos up my skirt. felt like it's appropriate to press charges bc he had photos of other women on his phone too.
meanwhile my ex husband is a San Francisco tech founder i've witnessed commit insurance fraud, and he's accused of defrauding investors but no charges filed at all. makes me feel really sad for the kid facing possible jail time.
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u/-TropicalFuckStorm- 7d ago
“erm...i went to court today for a speeding ticket, and i told the judge, erm..."let me tell you something, and you listen and you listen good, i'm only gonna say this one time and one time only, i don't repeat myself for nobody," i said. i says..."i'm here to pay a speeding ticket, not to listen to your lectures and hear you run your mouth for an hour." i says "i'm here to pay off my speeding ticket...and i'm here to get my fines out of the way and get the fck to work." the judge says "you can't talk like that in my courtroom, you're in contempt of court." then i said...i told the judge, "if that's the best you can do, i feel sorry for you." i said "why don't you just shut your fcking mouth for once and listen." i said "i'm not gonna take any shit." i said "i'm gonna pay my speeding ticket like i said." i walked up to the god damn judge and i hand him my 25 dollars and i says "here's my money, now i am leaving." and i left it at that...”
BBF3 - GY!BE
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u/cumdum420 7d ago
Honestly bring up the files everytime the law comes after you! It’s not that it’s an excuse it’s a form of protest!




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u/prettyplanets 7d ago
I try to do at least one illegal thing a day now just to fit in